Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 2, 2002

David Nunes – Pope Resources (popez)

DAVID L. NUNES is President and CEO, Pope Resources. Mr. Nunes has been with Pope Resources for six years. He served in a number of leadership capacities in timberland acquisitions and third-party portfolio management before being named to his current role in January 2002. Mr. Nunes joined Pope Resources and its subsidiary Olympic Resource Management from the Weyerhaeuser Company in 1997, where he had extensive experience involving export log sales and marketing, timberland acquisitions, mergers and acquisitions, and capital planning. He began his career in the forest products industry in 1979 with the Seattle- Snohomish Mill Company, where he worked in both sawmill operations and sales capacities. He has a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Pomona College and a M.S. in Industrial Administration Mellon University. Profile
TWST: Could you give us a brief historical sketch of Pope

Resources and a picture of the company as it is now?

Mr. Nunes: Our company got its beginnings as a spin off from Pope

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